Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)

Photo of Willie PenroseWillie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is even better. That is a bit of good news. It will certainly benefit a significant number of farmers with low-value entitlements. We should not be shirking or afraid. There will be many people out evaluating. We will have the farm organisations thundering in. Let us protect those for whom this was geared. Look at the objective of the Treaty of Rome and the Common Agricultural Policy. The two key objectives of the policy were cheap food for the consumers and sustaining the maximum number of farms on the land. This is a chance for us to reach out to those objectives.

Many farm organisations are calling for various new measures to be taken in TAMS. Is the Minister open to that? I do not know if the figure is €70 million or €20 million.

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